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HP to buy Aruba Networks for $2.7B in mobile push

HP president and CEO Meg Whitman has made good on a promise to acquire more companies. Hewlett-Packard Just last week, Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman said that her company would be “on the hunt” to acquire new companies, and now she has made good on that promise. HP plans to buy Aruba Networks in a $3 billion transaction that, factoring in …

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Sailfish Secure wants to be an Android alternative safe from spies’ prying eyes

A hacker, yesterday. Shutterstock Privacy is hot topic right now as spies and hackers are snooping into our lives and our phones like never before. Keeping your communications locked away from prying eyes, Sailfish Secure is a new version of the niche mobile operating system that’s designed to bring peace of mind to businesses, government officials, and privacy-minded phone fans. …

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Samsung Galaxy S6 and its missing features

Samsung gives consumers plenty of smartphone choices. But a removable battery is one choice that could be disappearing. Watch CNET Update for a quick rundown on Samsung’s new Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, two models that are the same except for the screen. Along with new perks, they both also lack some familiar options: Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Galaxy …

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Google confirms wireless efforts, plans bigger reveal ‘in coming months’

Sundar Pichai, Google’s senior vice president of products, speaks at Mobile World Congress 2015. Stephen Shankland/CNET BARCELONA — Google will launch a wireless service of its own, but it may be a limited project. Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of products for Google, confirmed that the world’s largest search company was in talks with wireless carriers, and suggested an answer …

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How Jaunt and Dolby scared the bejeesus out of me with a virtual reality ‘Black Mass’

“Black Mass”: it’s OK, I didn’t want to sleep for a week anyway. Jaunt BARCELONA — Virtual reality allows you to step into another world — or in the case of disturbing VR film “Black Mass”, be kidnapped, drugged and initiated into a good old-fashioned thorough freaking out. A company called Jaunt records films and events with a 360-degree camera …

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Judge appears poised to approve Apple, Google anti

Federal judge Lucy Koh approved a $415 million settlement by Apple, Google, Adobe and Intel related to illegal agreements not to poach each other’s employees. Shara Tibken/CNET A federal judge appears ready to approve a $415 million deal by four Silicon Valley tech giants to settle an antitrust lawsuit that accused them of conspiring to not recruit each other’s employees. …

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